Sustainable Cities and Communities

July 2023

SDG Ambassador of the month- Ms. Ankita Gupta

"We need more insurgency in the city in order to break unsustainable and privatizing patterns of urban development."

Initiatives taken:

• Community Awareness Campaign to educate the community about sustainable living, waste management, or the importance of green spaces through handmade posters.
• Digital Photo Collage made by students by taking photographs of their neighborhood, focusing on aspects such as green spaces, community interactions, or sustainable practices.
• Green Movie Screening: Movie screening of a short film on environment – ‘Save me’ related to sustainability and urban development to increase awareness about importance on sustainability amongst students.
• Eco-Friendly Crafts to promote sustainability by creating items such as reusable shopping bags, eco-friendly bird feeders, or upcycled planters etc using materials like old fabric, plastic bottles, or cardboard.
• Emanating Vloggers: Students presented their ideas about developing a sustainable city in the form of a 2-3 min video. They expressed their concern in the form of a video about the various methods of adopting sustainable methods in cities and communities. 

Description

Initiative 1 - Community Awareness Campaign - Students of class 4 were encouraged to design posters to educate the community about sustainable living, waste management, or the importance of green spaces. The students used their artistic skills and design attractive and informative posters. The activity was done on 12th July where students displayed their creativity and pour their ideas on a sheet of paper to draw beautiful posters to express their methods of making the cities sustainable.

Initiative 2 - Digital Photo Collage: Young Boscons of class 5 visited their neighborhood and found some places where sustainable practices have been adopted like using cloth shopping bags, switching to renewable energy, implementing energy conservation measures, investing in energy-efficient appliances, eliminating or reducing the use of plastic, reducing and reusing water etc. They clicked their photographs showcasing the sustainable practice being adopted and organized their photographs in the form of a beautiful and creative collage using a digital application.

Initiative 3 - Green Movie Screening: Students of classes 3 to 5 watched and enjoyed a short film on environment – ‘Save me’ on 18th July . The Movie shows what happens when children come together to save a tree from being cut. This Film has underlying message to protect trees and environment. This was followed by the insightful discussions to create awareness about the importance of trees in developing sustainable cities. Students shared their reflections and ideas for creating positive change in their communities.

Initiative 4 - Eco-Friendly Crafts: Students of classes 6 to 8 promoted sustainability of their cities by creating eco friendly items such as reusable shopping bags, eco-friendly bird feeders, or upcycled planters, eco bricks etc using materials like old fabric, plastic bottles, or cardboard. Students came up with amazing ideas of creating various eco friendly crafts in which they used waste and recycled material. They participated with full enthusiasm and learnt how to adopt sustainability in their daily lives.

Initiative 5 – Emanating Vloggers Students of classes 9 to 12 presented their ideas about developing a sustainable city in the form of a 2-3 min video. They expressed their concern in the form of a video. They gave a sustainable solution to an existing problem in the city which contributes to an environmental problem. They expressed various methods of adopting sustainable methods in cities and communities.